The development studio Obsidian has produced one of the best and most popular offshoots of the Fallout series. It’s understandable that many are asking for a successor. However, today’s leaders show little interest in that.
Which Fallout part are we talking about? Fallout has been developed by Bethesda since the third part and the brand as a whole is managed by them. However, a very specific offshoot, namely Fallout: New Vegas, was created at Obsidian Entertainment.
To this day, the game enjoys great popularity among fans of the brand, which is mainly due to the quirky setting with a Las Vegas flair and the well-written quests and characters. For years, a successor has been demanded, specifically one that is developed again by Obsidian.
However, the studio has long moved on and has its own plans, as the leaders recently revealed.
No time for contract work
What do the leaders say? In a conversation with The Game Business, Marcus Morgan and Justin Britch, both leading figures at Obsidian, reported that they are repeatedly questioned about a sequel to New Vegas. The question comes up with every new announcement from the studio.
However, Obsidian has little interest in that. Even before, but also after the takeover by Microsoft in 2018, the developers have developed their own brands and released some pretty good titles.
These include games like Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, Pentiment, or The Outer Worlds. A sequel to the latter has just been released, marking the third release planned for 2025. The other two were Grounded 2 and Avowed, which is not uninteresting for fans of Skyrim.
Regarding their own stance on this matter, Marcus Morgan says:
This year, we are not only celebrating the release of three games, but all three games are also IPs that we have developed ourselves, so Obsidian IPs. Before the acquisition by Microsoft, we mainly worked on other people’s IPs. And that’s the beauty of it: How do we define our own identity and how do we build our own IP? Now we have reached a point where we have sequels to all of our games. They are all sequels to the IPs we have developed ourselves.
Microsoft has been very supportive in this regard. Essentially, it is always a good sign when not just the same brands are continued, but also regularly new ideas are implemented. They want to clearly distinguish themselves from other studios in the genre, like Larian, CD Projekt Red, or even Bethesda, with their own style.
Even though Obsidian will not be making a New Vegas 2, the studio still offers fans The Outer Worlds 1 & 2. The role-playing games recall the setting, gameplay, and quirky, satirical humor of Fallout and provide a very good alternative – even if you play them as a shooter like MeinMMO editor Niko Hernes.
Those who absolutely want New Vegas as a setting must either dig out the old title again or wait for the upcoming second season of the Amazon series. Because it will venture into the gambling metropolis in the desert. The first season was really good: The Fallout series does a lot right – In one respect, it is even better than the games.
